Today's News

INDIAN LAND – Get ready shoppers, Wal-Mart is making plans to build its second Lancaster County store.

Chris Neely, spokesman for Wal-Mart, said the company has opened bids on construction at the Indian Land site off U.S. 521 near the North Carolina state line. A contractor has not yet been awarded, but Neely said that could happen in late summer or early fall.

Once work begins, Neely said it could take up to a year to finish construction and ready the building.

Ready or not, the switch from analog television to the digital age is here.

If you don’t notice anything different, that’s a good thing, analysts say.

“When you get up Saturday morning and turn on your TV, if it doesn’t work, you’ll know,” said Doug Crenshaw, owner of the Energy Center, who is certified to sell the special converter boxes that decode the digital signal.

The FCC has set up a toll-free hot line – 1-888-CALL FCC (225-5322) – for viewers with technical difficulties.

Authorities continue to probe the early Saturday morning shooting that sent a recent high school graduate to the hospital.

Lancaster Police Lt. James Kirk said Monday afternoon that no arrests have been made in the incident in which Todd Talford, 18, a 2009 Lancaster High School grad, was shot in the chest at Crenco Food Store on South Main Street.

Though no suspects have been identified, Kirk said investigators are following up on leads. Police are looking for a motive, he said.

Sheriff Barry Faile said he was sworn in as sheriff on Jan. 5, and on Jan. 6, Operation New Year’s Resolution began.

At a press conference Thursday at the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office, and flanked by elected officials and local and state law enforcement officials, Faile talked about the operation, which netted 218 arrests, drugs, guns and $27,000.